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SECTION. FIVE
Pages 1 to 12
Women s Section
Special Features
VOL,. XXXVL
PORTLAND,' OREGON. SUNDAY MORNING. DECE3IBER 2. 1917.
NO. 48.
JACKSON WOMEN HAVE NO DIFFICULTY IN
TAKING UP MEN'S WORK WHEN WAR CALLS
Mrs. J. E. Bodge, the "Barley Queen," Miss Alice Ilanly, Who Raises Stock, and Mrs. "William Lee Holloway,
Orchardist, Meet Emergency Imposed by Labor Shortage in Manner Satisfactory to Themselves.
Buy Practical Gifts This Christmas -Buy Furniture
Pay for St Next Year
"Karpen
GUARANTKED IPHOLSTERED PIECES
I fix;-? -t
For Gift Giving '
No better upholstered furniture Is produced to
day than "Karpe tn" guaranteed kind. It Is Ideal
for grift giving-. TThe quality Is guaranteed and
will give the user years of eervlce. The Powers
Store is the only Portland store showing "Kar
pen" furniture. The most desirable display we
have ever offered Is now ready.
Axminster Rugs
$1.00 Down, $1.00 Week
This 9x12 Worcester Ax- j, m. sav c f
minster Rug Is the beat X . o5
rug we have been able to 'm -procure
to sell at a price mr MB
of this kind. The nap is
long, thick and closely
woven. Insuring years of long service. It is
shown in a splendid variety of colors and pat
terns and makes an excellent item for Christ
mas giving. The very special credit terms is
an extra inducement. .
Pool Tables
Velocipedes, Wagons
Juvenile Pool Table. 24 by 44,
rubber cushions, size 19x24,
complete, with playing out- Cf
fit, very special wtiuU
Juvenile Pool Table, 24 by 44
rubber cushions, a most ex- fl Q(5
cellent gift piece, special. ... wOtOO
Burrow's Juvenile Pool
Table, size 19 by 34, fitted
with steel cushions and out- fljQ Cf
fit, special 00OU
all sizes. . !";. $3.50 to $13.50
$3.75 $5.85 $6.75
Here Is Your Christmas Victrola
(Q. First Payment
Our $20 Victrola for Christmas
Giving on the Most Unusual
Credit Terms Ever Offered
No home in Portland should be without a Victrola when such low credit terms as these are
offered, and no one could think of a gift piece that could be purchased so easily, or one that would
be more appropriate. Come In and make your selection of any 20 Victrola and pay only 5c cash,
each following payment you add 5c a week second payment 10c. third payment 15c, etc. until
the $20 is paid, covering a period of several months. The largest and last payment will be $1.25.
Our $119.00 Eight-Piece Suite dJOQ OC
in Jacobean Design, Now - -.tpO7--iO
This splendid Jacobean Suite which we have featured at so low a price
includes six genuine leather slip-seat chairs, a large buffet and a mas
sive base dining table. The china closet is not included at the suite
price. All pieces are built of selected, quartered oak- richly- finished.
The buffet is broad and roomy and the , dining table ; has -an unusual
pedestal and leg base. .
Buffet, $29.75; Chairs, $550; Table, $2650
Ivory Enamel or American Walnut Finish
Dresser, $26.75; Bed, $2425; Toilet Table,
$2225
Look at the-illustration -again check the pieces up with these spe
cial prices, then you will realize the genuine bargain' we are offering
you. The cut merely gives the outline of the pieces. It does not show
the splendid finish, nor the care to every detail of construction, for
it is the best period suite we have ever owned at a similar price.
The chiffonier can be had with mirror at $24.25.
?21 SOtin MAHOGANY WING
CHAIR OR ROCKERS
FOH ONL.V
$12.75
Spinet Desks
A MOST DKLIGHTFIL DISPLAY,
Some of the prettiest models we have
ever shown have just bean received and
are ready for your inspection. Prettily
designed Spinet Desks in various sizes
and grades, from the least expensive to
the best.
Gate -End Tables
$11.65
Open, the tables measure 26x391i
inches; closed. 26 inches in
length. In hand-rubbed satin
mahogany finish. Prettily de
signed tables that make excellent'
rift pieces and usually worth
18.50. Many other styles in the
various sizes and designs are now '
ready for your choosing.
Adam Work Tables
$11.85
Like illustration, except that they
have square taper instead of
turned legs. Fitted with three
drawers, top one having sliding
tray.
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"Adjusto" Chairs
Make Ideal Gifts 26 Kinds
"Adjusto" Chairs, as everybody knows, are the most comfortable
chairs produced. They recline to any wanted position of the user.
They are simple in construction, more than usually comfortable, and
represent the greatest values In the reclining-chair field today. We've
some twenty-six patterns to show you. in both the imitation and
genuine leather, and the variety of design is most favorable for
Christmas giving.
. Priced $21 and Up
Automatic Adjustable
Dress Forms
Why be satisfied with the old way of making dresses at home, when
one of these automatic adjustable dress forms would be such a help
to you and at the same time make such a decided improvement in the
appearance of your garments? These adjustable forms will conform
to any size, figure or height they adjust automatically and are a
wonderful help to women who do their own sewing. A small down
payment and the easy weekly .terms is every reason for you to own
one. - '
1.0O DOWN JOc WEEK.
This Progressive Store bays o Interest C
on Crtft Purchases
u
At this season of the year when there are so
many drains on the purse strings r when
there are so many presents to buy this store
offers credit terms on gift pieces that will
help much to solve the gift problem. There
is much satisfaction in knowing that you may
purchase any piece in this store for gift giv
ing without interest charges of any kind
attached, and also that you procure the best
quality at the price you have paid.
METROPOLITAN OPERA SEASON OPENS WITH
FEWER DIAMONDS BUT MORE APPRECIATION
Singing of "Star-Spangled Banner" by Great Artists Joined by Chorus and Audience Is Notable Feature Which
Sends Patriotic Thrill Through Every Person Present.
BY EMILIE FRANCES BAUER.
NEW TORK, Dec. 1. (Special.)
From the hour of noon a line was
formed around the Metropolitan
Opera-House, where the season opened
November 19 with the greatest favor
ite in ,all operatic repertory "Aida."
Lon before the curtain was raised
an eafser and expectant crowd assem
bled In every part of the house and
while the "horseshoe" was filled to the
last inch, there was a noticeable ab
sence of the aggressive diamonds that I
have made New York, noted or notorious.
The brilliancy was not lacking, how-
ever, neither was the appreciation be
cause each artist received & ripple of
applause quickly hushed down in order
that the continuity of the music might
not be disturbed. Then there was con
siderable interest in, the orchestral side
of the performance because this of
fered the first appearance at the Metro
politan, Opera-House o Robert ilo-
ranzoni. who had already attracted
much favorable comment when heard
in New lork with the Boston Opera
Company.
The artists who appeared in this su
perb performance have already made
records in their roles, including Caruso
as Radames, Miss Muzlo in the title
role, Mme. Matzenbauer as Amneris,
Amato as Amonasro, Basil Ruysdael as
the King and among the newcomers
was Jose Mardones as Ramfls. and
Mario SundeUus in. tier second, season
at the Metropolitan, but for the first
timo heard as the Priestess, which, re
ceived clear and beautiful singing.
Caruso was welcomed with all the
old-time fervor as he sang with all the
old-time beauty and opulence of voice,
imposing in a set of new costumes
which he- carried with befitting dig
nity. At the end of the first act when
Aida remains alone upon the stage, the
young favorite was called three times
before the curtain. Throughout she
presented a lovely picture and there
were many bits of personal expressions
which raised the part out of a tradi
tional routine, while she did not de
sert the details established by earlier
artists of commanding ability. She was
truly the "daughter of a king" and her
reserve force was welcome in & role
where she might have dropped into
"ranting."
Mme. Matzenauer has never seemed
more noble or overwhelmingly beauti
ful, nor has she sung with such skill.
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MSDFORD. Or., Dec. 1. (S pecial.)
When Paul Paulson anid Charley
Mattiney. bakers of this city,
went to war, their places were taken
by Miss Ruby Wilcox and Miss Grace
Kenschelow. What Misses Kienschelow
and Wilcox did, hundreds of other
Jackson County women and girls have
done since the war began, and are do
ing now. Because of the l.-tbor short
age duo to the war, they lui v e picked
and packed fruit, sprayed, pruned,
threshed grain, driven trucks, culti
vated and aftfr the next rajn at least
one woman will do the Fall blowing.
Shc is Mrs. J. K. Bodge, the "Barley
Queen." Mrs. Bodge does not like pub
licity. -Nor does she like to' have her
picture taken. A story mlglit be writ
ten about the diplomacy required to
obtain the photographs oft this un
usually capable and remarkable woman
farmer, who gets a better price for her
barley than any other fSirmer or
farmerette in the Rogue River Valley.
Competent Help Hard to Hire.
This aversion to publicity appears to
be due to a certain feminine fastidious
ness. Mrs. Bodge does, a man's work,
but she doesn't do it in a mannish way.
In fact, there is nothing mannish about
her. And she is convinced that news
paper men are in a conspiracy to make
her appear a sort of "masculinised"
freak, and with a deep bass volcn and a
right arm that could put Jess Willard
to sleep.
She detests all that sort of thing, the
new woman, militant suffragette idea.
She doesn't get up at 4 A. M-, put on
her overalls and milk the cow because
she wants to. She doesn't do the Fall
plowing because she prefers that to
tatting. She does those things pri
marily because with th war taking
the men to the front she has tq do
them, and secondarily because she can
do them better herself than the aver
age male helper that it is possible at
such a time to hire.
Perhaps there is a third considera
tion. Mrs. Bodge is not raising barley
for her health. She did not make her
money in the city so she could spend
it in the country. It Is not a "stunt"
with her. She has to make her living
on her farm, and after' several years
she has decided that the only way to
make a living is to live like a farmer.
And she does live like a farmer. She
gets up before sunrise and she works
all day. retiring, figuratively speaking,
with the chickens. She lrves alone in
a dream of a bungalow designed by
herself, her daughter is at boarding
school in Xew Kngland, and instead of
hiring the work done, she does it.
Women Firmrrl aTrfmful.
And another book could be written
on the way she does It. But this is
not an article about Mrs. Bodge, but
about women doing men's work in the
war. so suffice to say that the Bodge
cowshed is built of concrete and fir.
far cleaner than some parlors you have
seen, that when housecleaning time
comes around she ta3ces up the rugs
and turns the hose on the concrete
floors; and when truere is necessary
marketing to do she cranks up her
spotless touring car, discards o walla
and pigtails and, lo. no "Barley Queen"
have we here. But' Mrs. Bodge hates
flattery, too. Howerv-er. with a smart
looking suit, which she didn't make
herself, and a complexion that only
outdoor life. exercise and regular
hours can give. tha.t worry about the
new woman suffragette stuff Is harder
than ever to understand.
Incidentally, Mrs. Bodge makes the
farm pay. And so -docs Miss Alice
Hanley, sister of ' the famous Bill
Hanley of Burns. Or., proprietress of
the old Hanley homstead. the oldest
and most picturesque place in Southern
Oregon. For many years Miss Hanley
has managed this ranch, so the general
work is nothing new, but the war has
reduced her help so that she has had
to do more herself and depend more
upon the women, girls and buys of the
neighborhood.
Needless to say. Miss Hanley prefers
stock. Every true Oregon lUtnlcy pre
fers stock. She lives on the ranch
purchased by her father, Michael Han
ley, in 1855, and the spring house
shown in the photograph, where Miss
Hanley keeps the butter that she
churns, was built in. 1860, six months
before the first shot crashed into Fort
Sumter.
Shrp Yield 97 at Head.
Tes. Miss Hanley has raised horses,
cattle, pigs and sheep the past year as
her contribution to the country during
the war. The wool on one sheep netted
$12 and the herd averaged $7 a. head.
And the Haniey barn.- the first barn
built In Jackson County, is full of
alfalfa and grain hay raised this year
on the 134 acres surrounding the old
homestead.
We need scarcely arid Miss Hanley
makes her farm pay. And Miss Hanley
in boss. What she doesn't do herself
she sees is done. A. native-born Ore
gonian. sbe takes a great pride in her
state and the part her family has
taken in Its early life and later prog
ress. Mi.-v Hanley's mother was a
Burnett Martha Burnett, the daughter
of Peter . Burnett, the flrst judge in
Oregon and the first Governor of Cali
fornia. The wonderful weeping willow
tree, shown In the picture shading the
spring house, was. planted from a wil
low sprig1 brought to Michael Hanley
by Smith Kearney, the pioneer capital
ist or Portland, fcn a silt potato. Mr.
Kearney made the trip from Oregon
City to Oie Rogue Kiver Valley on
horseback and the willow threw out
its first sVioots when Abraham Lincoln
was President.
As Mrs. -Bodge represents the woman
farmer in war time and Miss Hanley
represents L tlue woman stockratser In
war time, no Mrs. William Lee Hollo-
way represents the woman orchardist
In war tin-ie. Mrs. Holloway was one
of the pioneers in the Kastern emigra
tion which made Medford one of the
orchard bonan towns in 1910.
Orrkardlit'a J'roflt Big.
When he arrived she didn't know
the difference between an Anjou pear
and a Hubbard squash and her agri
cultural . experience had been confined
to a lit.tle window garden In one of
Philadelphia's most exclusive residence
district's. But In three years she had
dcmorjsUat.cd, Uiat $1000 profit an acre
on 10 acres of pear orchard was not a
vain boast of the colored booklets, and
since war was declared she has demon
strated that a woman single-handed
can successfully run an orchard with
out having been born on one.
Mrs. Holloway learned the orchard
business at the age well, let us say
from 35 to 40, and she learned by tak
ing a course at O. A. C. When labor
left the valley at the outbreak of the
war and the Holoway foreman aban
doned fighting blight to fight Germans,
ilrs. Holloway was distressed. When
she could find time to take the fore
man's job she whs more distressed.
But now she admit it was the most
fortunate thing that ever happened.
For Mrs. Holloway had to take the
Job herself. She had helped in spray
ing, pruning and cultivating before,
but she hud never engineered the job.
She had never tried to handle the
working force. Now there is nothing
on the ranch she has not done and does
not know how to do.
And so Mrs. Holloway is truly inde
pendent. Men may come and men may
go. but she, with her horses and ma
chinery, can make the ranch go on
forever. The horror of the foreman,
quitting his job has been removed.
"I have found," says Mrs. Holloway.
"that the only way one can really
know how to do a job is to do it. I
have picked, packed, pruned, cultl-'
vated. plowed and driven the fruit wag
ons to the shipping station. Now I
know that if my foreman leaves me I
can handle things myself until I can
get another. It's a great relief. When
the war came I thought it a terrible
catastrophe as far as my own business
was concerned. Now 1 know it was a
blessing. What I have done any
woman can do. with strength, good
health and a love for hard work and
thi great outdoors."
Mrs. Holloway also lives alone, pro
tected by a packof thoroughbred Aire
dales and a blue-ribbon Persian cat.
She not only tends to her ranch as
above noted, but she is an indefatigable
charity worker, is Jackson County's
representative of the Anti-Tuberculosis
League, sews and knits for the Red
Cross and every now and then cooks
and serves a dinner in her very attrac
tive home and washes the dishes her
self after enjoying a few rubbers of
bridge.
Here then are inadequate sketches of
three women in Jackson County who
are doing men's work during the war,
because of the war. There are hun
dreds of others, no doubt, but these
three are typical. They show that in
no other department of economic life
during war are women better fitted to
take on mere man's burden than on tha
farm.
1913 Law Not Repealed.
SALEM. Or.. Dec. 1. (Special.) Ar
thur Clarke. Uistrlct Attorney for Ben
ton County, has been advised by Attorney-General
Brown that the law of
1917 relating to registering firearms
and obtaining permits for carrying
such arms, does not repeal the law of
1913 on the subject of firearms. - The :
new law of 1917. the Attorney-General
holds, merely throws more restrictions '
around the Bale of. fireafojs.
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